Unicity of Divine Intellect and Will

[levinas12]

quick question for the Thomists out there - where can I find a cite in Thomas Aquinas that, in God, there is just One Divine Intellect and One Divine Will (even though there are three Divine Persons)?

 

[levinas12]

There has to be at least one Thomist out there that can respond to this question … I know that amazingly enough another thread has been started relative to this issue. So you pick your thread - all I need is a cite to Summa Theologiae or another work by Thomas Aquinas.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

This would follow from the divine simplicity; God is not made up of parts. For that matter the divine intellect and will are not really two faculties, but one and the same; in fact, they are God himself, though we can only understand his operations in terms of our own. St. Thomas discusses God’s simplicity in S.T. Part I, Q. 3. I’d start there.

 

[levinas12]

This would follow from the divine simplicity; God is not made up of parts. For that matter the divine intellect and will are not really two faculties, but one and the same; in fact, they are God himself, though we can only understand his operations in terms of our own. St. Thomas discusses God’s simplicity in S.T. Part I, Q. 3. I’d start there.

Thanks … I’ll look at the cite … would you possibly have an explicit statement by some commentator on Thomas or major Catholic theologian that there is only one Divine Intellect and one Divine Will … I know I’ve seen such a statement somewhere but can’t locate it …

The context here is a discussion I’m having elsewhere on the Three Persons of the Trinity … I said that, though there are Three Persons, there is only one Divine Intellect and one Divine Will … of course, Jesus also has a human intellect and a human will …

 

[Ad_Orientem]

Sorry, I don’t know of an explicit statement like that off the top of my head. St. Thomas (S.T. I, Q. 14, 19) seems to take for granted that there is one divine mind.

 

[Fiasco]

The context here is a discussion I’m having elsewhere on the Three Persons of the Trinity … I said that, though there are Three Persons, there is only one Divine Intellect and one Divine Will… of course, Jesus also has a human intellect and a human will…

Scott Hahn would agree with you. And it can’t be any other way.

i poked my nose into that thread…but what was the point?

 

[levinas12]

This would follow from the divine simplicity; God is not made up of parts. For that matter the divine intellect and will are not really two faculties, but one and the same; in fact, they are God himself, though we can only understand his operations in terms of our own. St. Thomas discusses God’s simplicity in S.T. Part I, Q. 3. I’d start there.

Thanks … I think I found what I was looking for (with the help of this thread) … it’s ST Part I, Q19, Article 2, reply to objection 4 …

By the way, sometimes the Summa is referred to as Summa Theologica, and sometimes as Summa Theologiae … anyone know why the difference …